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Unpublished Paper
Simulating Exoplanet Detection of Kepler via Monte-Carlo Techniques
(2013)
  • Manuel Marcano, Utah State University
  • Mario Yuuji Harper, Utah State University
Abstract

The Kepler mission was launched in 2009 with the intent to find earth-like planets around other star systems. Since it's launch, the number of known (and suspected) exoplanets have increased substantially from 200 to 3000. With this increase in data now available, we have chosen to model through a monte-carlo simulation, the possibility of being able to see exoplanets in a random part of the sky (using the parameters of the Kepler spacecraft). We show that there is a 0.18 to 0.01 percent chance of being able to detect exoplanets.

Keywords
  • Exoplanet,
  • Kepler Mission,
  • Monte Carlo Method
Publication Date
April 2, 2013
Citation Information
Manuel Marcano and Mario Yuuji Harper. "Simulating Exoplanet Detection of Kepler via Monte-Carlo Techniques" (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mario_harper/5/